| Who are you voting for? |
| Labour |
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40% |
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| Conservative |
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10% |
[ 1 ] |
| Liberal Democrats |
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40% |
[ 4 ] |
| Other |
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10% |
[ 1 ] |
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CJ Cregg
Commodore
Joined: 05 Oct 2002
Posts: 1254
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 Sun May 01, 2005 9:16 am UK General Election |
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Its 4 days until the General Election on May 5th. What is your opinion on the election so far? and who do you intend to vote for?
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Starbuck
faster...
Joined: 19 Feb 2003
Posts: 8715
Location: between chaos and melody
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| Sun May 01, 2005 9:22 am |
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I hope the liberals take it
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madlilnerd
Duchess of Dancemat
Joined: 03 Aug 2004
Posts: 5885
Location: Slough, England
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| Sun May 01, 2005 11:51 am |
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We're having our own version at school. I can't decide, but I don't care as long as the conservatives don't get in. Micheal Howard looks like if you went up to him he'd lock you in a cellar and drink your blood when the moon was right...
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Seven of Nine
Sammie's Mammy
Joined: 16 Jun 2001
Posts: 7871
Location: North East England
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| Sun May 01, 2005 1:40 pm |
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I'm voting Lib Dem. Respect isn't standing in my constituancy, and Labour are too much like the old Tory party for my liking. Also, the Lib Dem candidate for my area actually has lived here for more than a few weeks, which helps 
He's been a councillor for our area, and did a good job at that, and I like his record. He also bothered to ring us back when we had a problem, which puts him up in my books
Although there's pretty much no chance the Lib Dems are going to get in as a majority in Westminster, I much prefer their aims to the Tories and Labour. I also trust Charles Kennedy more than Tony Bliar (deliberately done- he's been proven to lie) and Michael Howard... and I feel a little sorry for his wife because I know how difficult it is to raise a newborn 
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madlilnerd
Duchess of Dancemat
Joined: 03 Aug 2004
Posts: 5885
Location: Slough, England
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| Sun May 01, 2005 1:48 pm |
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Lots of people at school support Lib Dems. I dunno, I saw this thing on TV where this man held up two posters and one said "Lim Dems say YES to Iraq" and the other said "Lib Dems say NO to Iraq". I don't like flipfloppers, but I do like the way they admitted that they will have to raise taxes to acomplish goals and the scrapping of tuition fees (because I'm 15 and my brother's 17, so it means a lot to both of us).
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Jeremy
J's Guy
Joined: 03 Oct 2002
Posts: 7823
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
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| Sun May 01, 2005 4:42 pm |
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I find it funny how you say he's been proven to lie Danni, since all are liars, 
I'm not sure who I'd vote for, but I would vote if I could. I'm going to miss out on voting by a couple of months though.
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Seven of Nine
Sammie's Mammy
Joined: 16 Jun 2001
Posts: 7871
Location: North East England
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| Sun May 01, 2005 4:44 pm |
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I missed out on the last elections by 8 days. That was annoying.
I know they all lie, but with Blair he's actually been caught out... the others haven't (yet  ). Also, lying over such a thing as the Iraq war isn't good... not when the MPs didn't get the correct information.
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Jeremy
J's Guy
Joined: 03 Oct 2002
Posts: 7823
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
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| Sun May 01, 2005 5:15 pm |
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LOL, yep, it's basically a slagging off match now.
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madlilnerd
Duchess of Dancemat
Joined: 03 Aug 2004
Posts: 5885
Location: Slough, England
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| Mon May 02, 2005 9:02 am |
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I hate it when parties do that! Win by making better policies than the other parties, not by putting them down! Michael Howard is all "Tony Blair this and Tony blair that", if you're so damm obsessed, why don't you marry him?!!!
I'm calm, I'm calm...
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Seven of Nine
Sammie's Mammy
Joined: 16 Jun 2001
Posts: 7871
Location: North East England
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| Mon May 02, 2005 11:14 am |
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I'm just waiting for Thursday... and hoping my polling card arrives by then (I'm on the electoral register).
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CJ Cregg
Commodore
Joined: 05 Oct 2002
Posts: 1254
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| Mon May 02, 2005 12:02 pm |
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| Seven of Nine wrote: | | I'm just waiting for Thursday... and hoping my polling card arrives by then (I'm on the electoral register). |
You can still go to the polling station and vote if you dont recive your card through the post. The card is just to speed thing up at the polling station
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Jeremy
J's Guy
Joined: 03 Oct 2002
Posts: 7823
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
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| Mon May 02, 2005 12:14 pm |
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| madlilnerd wrote: | I hate it when parties do that! Win by making better policies than the other parties, not by putting them down! Michael Howard is all "Tony Blair this and Tony blair that", if you're so damm obsessed, why don't you marry him?!!!
I'm calm, I'm calm... |
The funny thing is that Labour say the Tories are running a negative campaign, when they're doing exactly the same thing.
There was a magazine I read which was pretty funny as it had Blair saying "Good morning" when the weather outside was really bad, and saying it proved he was lying again. Sums them up, lol.
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Jeremy
J's Guy
Joined: 03 Oct 2002
Posts: 7823
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
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| Thu May 05, 2005 9:16 am |
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| BBC NEWS wrote: | Britain's voters heading to polls
Voting is taking place in 46,000 polling stations
Voting is under way in the UK general election after a 30-day campaign.
Polls remain open in 645 constituencies until 2200 BST, with the first results due at 2345. It will not be clear who has won until early on Friday.
Tony Blair has cast his vote in his Sedgefield constituency. Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy voted in Fort William. Michael Howard cast his in Hythe.
Voting has been postponed in the 646th constituency, Staffordshire South, because one of the candidates died.
Any of the record six million people who elected to vote by post, but have not yet sent in their ballots, can hand them in at polling stations.
Leaders' votes
Local elections are also taking place in 34 county councils and three unitary authorities in England. There are also four mayoral contests.
There are also elections in all 26 councils in Northern Ireland.
TIMETABLE
Thursday 0700 BST: Polling stations open
2200: Polling stations close
2345: First results expected
Friday 0100: National picture begins to emerge
Labour leader Mr Blair cast his vote, along with his wife Cherie and two sons Euan and Nicky, at the Trimdon Colliery Community Centre.
Mr Kennedy cast his vote along with his wife Sarah at the Caol Community Centre in Fort William in his Ross and Skye constituency.
Conservative leader Michael Howard and his wife Sandra voted, along with their daughter Larissa, at a village hall in Hythe .
There will be an increased police presence near polling stations in Westminster and other parts of London.
At the end of the last Parliament, Labour had 410 MPs, the Conservatives 164 and the Liberal Democrats 54.
The Scottish National Party also have five seats, Plaid Cymru four, the Democratic Unionists seven, the Ulster Unionists five, Sinn Fein four, the SDLP three, and one each for Respect, Independent and Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern.
To gain a majority at this election, when boundary changes mean there are fewer seats available, one party needs to win 324 seats.
Sunderland South was the first to declare its result in 2001, just 43 minutes after the polls closed.
But the national picture of how the parties stand will not emerge until at least 0100 BST on Friday.
Attention will also be on turn-out, which in 2001 fell to 59%, the lowest level since 1918.
Election organisers hope postal voting will help turn-out, although there have been concerns about the security of the system against fraud.
Voters taking the traditional polling station route are asked to take their voting cards to help officials, although it is not compulsory.
Weather effect?
People who have been sent postal ballots can still vote by delivering them by hand to a local polling station or the address on their envelope.
Previous elections suggest weather may have an impact on turn-out.
Cloud and patchy rain is forecast across much of the country on Thursday, although it should be dry in southern England.
Temperatures should range between 13 and 17 degrees centigrade.
In 1992, turnout was 78% on a generally dry and sunny day. Turnout was 71% in 1997, when again it was dry, sunny and very warm.
In 2001, the weather was very cool, with a brisk wind and blustery showers across the UK. |
Last edited by Jeremy on Thu May 05, 2005 6:43 pm; edited 1 time in total
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madlilnerd
Duchess of Dancemat
Joined: 03 Aug 2004
Posts: 5885
Location: Slough, England
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| Thu May 05, 2005 12:48 pm |
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At school we had our own election and there were big signs everywhere, but one of my friends took the "r" from general and replaced it with a "t" and replaced the "L" in election with an "R", which made the sign a lot more eye grabbing.
I didn't like any of the six form candidates so I drew a different box on the ballot paper, wrote "Green party candidate- mother earth" on it and handed that in.
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CJ Cregg
Commodore
Joined: 05 Oct 2002
Posts: 1254
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| Thu May 05, 2005 1:19 pm |
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We had an election yesterday at my college. The results were:
Liberal Democrats - 38%
Labour - 36%
Conservative - 22%
Other - 4%
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Seven of Nine
Sammie's Mammy
Joined: 16 Jun 2001
Posts: 7871
Location: North East England
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| Thu May 05, 2005 1:48 pm |
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Well, this morning I placed my vote. I made an X next to the Liberal Democrat cendidate, Peter Maughan. Johny also voted for him, because last night after 7pm Labour came down our street with their loudspeaker telling us to vote for them, waking Sammie up. If you want Johny to do something, you do not wake Sammie up (I was at a community meeting learning about the hurricane that crashed near our village in the 2nd World War, and the arrangements for July ).
There's a decent chance of the Lib Dem candidate getting in, and he's the only local candidate too (the Labour one is from Sunderland, the Conservative one is from Glasgow and the UKIP one I can't seem to get any information about). He may be very ugly, but at least he sounds nice on the telephone, and is willing to speak to us- he's the only candidate we've heard from.
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Republican_Man
STV's Premier Conservative
Joined: 26 Mar 2004
Posts: 14823
Location: Classified
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| Thu May 05, 2005 6:29 pm |
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As much as I don't like his economic policies, Tony Blair has been a good leader in the fight against terror and a good ally. Therefore, I vote labour.
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Founder
Dominion Leader
Joined: 21 Jun 2004
Posts: 12755
Location: Gamma Quadrant
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| Thu May 05, 2005 6:30 pm |
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Tony Blair wins! Yay!
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Jeremy
J's Guy
Joined: 03 Oct 2002
Posts: 7823
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
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| Thu May 05, 2005 6:46 pm |
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| BBC News wrote: | Blair on Course for Victory
Tony Blair is on course for an historic third term in Downing Street, but with a sharply reduced majority of 66 seats, according to a joint BBC/ITV News exit poll.
The Mori/NOP survey gives Labour a comfortable majority with the Conservatives getting 209 seats and the Liberal Democrats 53.
The prediction forecasts that Labour will win a 37 per cent share of the national vote, with the Tories on 33% and the Lib Dems on 22 per cent.
The figures would suggest another three-figure majority for Labour but with more than one in four voters saying they were still undecided, all the parties believe the final result could be much tighter.
Despite the convention that the parties do not campaign on polling day, Labour's deputy leader John Prescott used email and Tory leader Michael Howard hit the telephone in a final bid to rally the troops.
Mr Blair was the first of the leaders to cast his vote. He was joined by his wife Cherie and sons Euan, 21, and Nicky, 19, who were voting for the first time in a General Election.
The Blairs were among a steady trickle of voters going to the polls in the village of Trimdon Colliery, in the Prime Minister's constituency of Sedgefield, Co Durham.
Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy, accompanied by his wife Sarah, cast his vote in Fort William in his constituency in the Scottish Highlands.
And Mr Howard was joined by his wife Sandra and daughter Larissa as he voted at the Lympne Village Hall in his Folkestone and Hythe constituency.
Labour circulated a mass email, in the name of Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, urging the party's supporters to get out and vote.
Mr Howard, meanwhile, hit the phones to rally would-be MPs. The Tory leader called candidates in target seats to offer last-minute encouragement from a Midlands phone centre. |
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Seven of Nine
Sammie's Mammy
Joined: 16 Jun 2001
Posts: 7871
Location: North East England
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| Thu May 05, 2005 7:32 pm |
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It ain't over till the last result comes in (or until Labour gets its majority, anyway )
Bah, the Labour candidate got in in Blaydon (my constituency). Still trying to find out what the exact numbers were though, and as soon as I know I'll be going to bed
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Dirt
Exercise Boy
Joined: 19 May 2003
Posts: 2086
Location: a tree
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| Fri May 06, 2005 12:48 am |
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Bliar won,
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LightningBoy
Commodore
Joined: 09 Mar 2003
Posts: 1446
Location: Minnesota, U.S.A.
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| Fri May 06, 2005 1:10 am |
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Thanks, UK!
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CJ Cregg
Commodore
Joined: 05 Oct 2002
Posts: 1254
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| Fri May 06, 2005 9:17 am |
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Blair has won with a majority of only 62. down from 160. This is a good thing because he will have to actually have to negotiate for votes now instead of ignoring all of his partys back benchers. Lib dem gain 11 seats so im pleased.
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Republican_Man
STV's Premier Conservative
Joined: 26 Mar 2004
Posts: 14823
Location: Classified
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| Fri May 06, 2005 5:23 pm |
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Well, at least Blair's still PM
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Jeremy
J's Guy
Joined: 03 Oct 2002
Posts: 7823
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
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| Fri May 06, 2005 6:12 pm |
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The funny thing is, the Labour Party, which Bliar as Dirk put it, lol, is the American equivalent of the Democrats. And most republicans really like him. While saying that Labour is a lot nearer the centre of the policital spectrum. I think it was probably the best result as well, although it might have been better if the majority was slighly smaller still.
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